School of Art Museum & Gallery Aberystwyth University

Institution, Museums

Scope of Collection: Collection-level records:

Collection overview (Cornucopia)

Ancient Egyptian Collection
The museum holds about 55 ancient Egyptian objects. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; faience dish; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures (fragments); relief sculpture; shabtis; cosmetic palette; stone vessels; tools. Objects are known to have come from the following locations in Egypt (with the name of the excavator/sponsor and year of excavation given where possible): Gizeh; Kafr Ammar (Mackay and Petrie – British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1911-1912); Riqqeh (Engelbach et al. – British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1912-1913); Saqqarah; Tarkhan (Petrie et al. – British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1911-1913).
Subjects
Antiquities; Ancient civilizations; Antiquity; Archaeological sites; Archaeological objects; Egyptology; Archaeological excavations
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC

Address: Aberystwyth University, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DE, United Kingdom
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